Author: Paul Sinclair
Enrol for our Christmas Advent Giveaway: 23 Prizes in 23 Days
***THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED***
No one can accuse this blog of being Scrooge-like as we head into the festive season. We’re entering into the Christmas spirit with our biggest ever competition – possibly the biggest music blog competition ever seen – with the SuperDeluxeEdition.com CHRISTMAS ADVENT GIVEAWAY.
Every day from tomorrow, 3 December, until Christmas Day, we will open our competition advent calendar ‘window’ at 8am GMT and reveal the prize for that day. 12 hours later at 8pm GMT a winner for that prize will be randomly selected from everyone who enrols to be part of this prize draw and announced on the blog. ENTRY IS FREE. To enrol and automatically be entered into all 23 prize draws simply do the following:
- Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter. Click here to enter your email address (you will receive a confirmation email). If you are already a subscriber, simply proceed to number 2 below!
- Leave a comment at the bottom of this post. This ensures we know exactly who, and how many have entered. Click here to take you directly to the ‘comments’ box.
That is all there is too it! Each day the prize is randomly selected, as is the winner. The nature of this competition is that you don’t know what you’re going to win until you win it. Please enter into the spirit and no complaining – if you’re lucky enough to win something that you don’t like (or need). You have the option to inform us that you don’t want it, or why not just give it away to someone you know!
Regular readers of SuperDeluxeEdition will know that we cover a broad spectrum of artists and eras, and will also be aware that we give away GREAT prizes.
To give you an idea of the quality of the gifts behind the 23 advent ‘windows’ in this giveaway here’s some of the prizes included: Pink Floyd/The Wall 7-disc Immersion Box Set, Emerson Lake & Palmer (2CD+DVD-A Deluxe Edition), T. Rex/Electric Warrior (2CD Deluxe Edition), The Doors Live At The Bowl ’68 (CD), Led Zeppelin/Celebration Day (2CD+Blu-ray), Frankie Goes To Hollywood/Frankie Said (CD), Elvis/Prince From Another Planet (3-Disc Deluxe), Kirsty MacColl/Kite (2CD Deluxe), Jesus And Mary Chain/Darklands (2CD+DVD Deluxe Edition), Propaganda/Wishful Thinking (CD) and many more!
This competition is open to everyone with no restrictions. Good luck – it all starts tomorrow at 8am GMT!
***THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED***
Thanks to all our friends in the industry who have helped to make this competition a reality by supplying the prizes, including Sony, Warner Bros., EMI, Universal, Demon Music Group, Salvo Music, Cherry Red and various PR agencies. Our decision is final regarding the prize giving, and no alternative is offered. All prizes will be posted early in 2013.
Elvis competition: Win a copy of Prince From Another Planet
We have a copy of the superb Elvis deluxe release Prince From Another Planet to give away.
This set documents Elvis Presley‘s performance at Madison Square Garden in 1972, with two full sets on two CDs and a DVD containing fan-filmed footage of one of the performances as well as a documentary about the concerts. A full review of this release can be found here.
To enter the competition, simply visit our Facebook page and follow the instructions on the Elvis post. Good luck!
THE VINYL COUNTDOWN: Pick of the LP box sets and reissues this winter
Vinyl records continue to experience a boom in popularity amongst audiophiles and record collectors. The industry is responding to this with a wave of releases and reissues over the autumn/early winter period.
With labels often making the effort to cut from original analogue master tapes, press onto 180g heavyweight vinyl and replicate original packaging, it’s easy to see the appeal for the turntable-owning music lovers.
Here’s our pick of the best of recent and forthcoming vinyl boxes and reissues.
The Beatles in Stereo Vinyl remaster box set (Apple/EMI)
All the albums pressed on heavyweight vinyl, lovingly tweaked from the original 2009 remasters to ensure superb sound on the vinyl medium. More here.
Little Feat / Sailing Shoes (Warner Music)
Superb pressing from the original master tapes of Little Feat’s second studio album. This comes in a gatefold sleeve as per the original release. These features the classic Willin’.
Smashing Pumpkins / Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Out next week, this remastered vinyl of the Mellon Collie album features the original record spread out over 8 sides (4 LPS) for the first time to ensure optimum sound and it comes housed in 12×12 rigid slipcase with two books containing personal notes, new collage artwork, and lyrics. More here.
The Who / Studio Albums 11LP vinyl box set
All the Who studio albums remastered for vinyl, with original packaging in a sturdy rigid box. More here.
Otis Redding: Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul
Pressed on 180g BLUE vinyl, this classic record is cut from the original analog master tapes and has never sounded better. Order here (UK) or here (Germany).
Genesis 1976-1982 vinyl box
Heavyweight vinyl boxed: Albums within are A Trick Of A Tail (1976), Wind & Wuthering (1976), And Then There Were Three (1978), Duke (1980) and Abacab (1981). More here.
The Beat – The Vinyl Collection
The three Beat albums on vinyl plus an exclusive ‘Dub’ 12-inch vinyl selection. More here.
Elbow – The Definitive Vinyl Album box set
All of Elbow’s albums to date, on seven heavyweight vinyl double gatefold LPs.Comes with a USB stick holding all the albums as high resolution WAV files. More here.
Can The Lost Tapes
This five-LP box set is out next week on 3 December 2012. It comes with a 24-inch square poster and a 28-page booklet with sleeve notes by Irmin Schmidt and Ian Harrison. The records will be pressed onto 180g heavyweight vinyl. More here.
A Box Of Sugar
A set containing vinyl replicas of all three studio albums with printed inner sleeves, a B-sides collection and a double live album from 1994. More here.
Black Sabbath / The Vinyl Collection 1970-1978
Nine albums from the Ozzy-era remastered from the original tapes, with original packaging and inserts. Download code for all content included. More here.
Blur 21 / Vinyl box
All seven of Blur’s albums (no bonus tracks) collected together in this limited set. Order this set here for the UK, here for US, here for Canada or here for Germany.
Pulp / His N Hers 2xLP deluxe vinyl
A double vinyl edition of Pulp‘s breakthrough 1994 release, containing the album-proper on the first record and all 13 bonus tracks from the 2006 deluxe CD on the second vinyl record.
Pressed on 180 gram audiophile vinyl, with an eight-page booklet with liner notes from Jarvis Cocker. Out on 10 December (in the UK).
- • UK Pre-order: His ‘n’ Hers [2xLP Vinyl]
- • USA Pre-order: His ‘n’ Hers [2xLP Vinyl]
- • GERMANY Pre-order: His ‘n’ Hers [2xLP Vinyl]
Track listing
Record 1
- First Joyriders
- Second Lip gloss
- Third Acrylic Afternoons
- Have You Seen Her Lately?
- Babies
- She’s A Lady
- Happy Endings
- Do You Remember The First Time?
- Pink Glove
- Someone Like The Moon
- David’s Last Summer
Record 2
- First Live On (Bbc Mark Goodier Session)
- Second You’re Not Blind (Demo)
- Third Space (BBC Hit The North Session Soundcheck)
- The Boss (Demo)
- Watching Nicky (demo)
- Frightened (demo)
- Your Sister’s Clothes
- Seconds
- His ‘N’ Hers
- Street Lites
- You’re A Nightmare (Bbc John Peel Session)
- The Babysitter
- Deep Fried in Kelvin
Black Sabbath / The Vinyl Collection 1970-1978 limited edition box
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler are currently back in the studio recording a new Black Sabbath album. While we wait to see what comes of that, the band are releasing a limited edition vinyl set celebrating the classic 1970s ‘Ozzy-era’. Nine albums on 180-gram heavyweight 12-inch, with full reproductions of the original album packaging and inserts. The original master tapes were remastered at a 24-bit/96kHz resolution for this set, so they quality should be superb. This set is released on 12 December 2012.
Contents:
- • Black Sabbath
- • Paranoid
- • Master of Reality (with poster)
- • Volume 4 (with photo insert book)
- • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- • Sabotage
- • Technical Ecstasy
- • Never Say Die
- • Live At Last
Also included is a seven-inch single featuring the band’s debut single Evil Woman and non-album B-side Wicked World. This set also comes with a 12-inch x 12-inch hard-back book containing original tour programmes from 1970, 1975, 1976 and 1978 as well as a voucher (“Back to Black Sabbath”) to download the whole set (file format unknown).
The Blow Monkeys / reissue photos
Officially released next week, here’s a first-peak at the Blow Monkeys reissues from Cherry Red. Each album has a CD of demos and remixes with B-sides and additional mixes appended to the album on disc 1. Booklets are excellent with an interview with “Dr” Robert Howard and lyrics and discography. Full track listings here.
ANIMAL MAGIC (2CD Deluxe Edition)
- • UK Pre-order: Animal Magic 2CD Deluxe
- • USA Pre-order: Animal Magic 2CD Deluxe
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Animal Magic 2CD Deluxe
LIMPING FOR A GENERATION (2CD Deluxe Edition)
ABBA Deluxe Edition
ABBA‘s eponymously-titled third studio album (issued in March 1975) was actually only the second to be released in the UK, since the pre-Waterloo debut, Ring Ring, didn’t come out until 1992. A new deluxe CD+DVD version of ABBA came out last week.
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The Beatles Vinyl Remasters: #1 Please Please Me
Given the control and protection of The Beatles ‘brand’ these days by Apple Corps, it’s incredible to think in the UK in the 1970s EMI released Beatles albums on cassette and shuffled the running order of the songs for the convenience of the format.
Continue reading “The Beatles Vinyl Remasters: #1 Please Please Me”
COMPETITION WINNER / Paul McCartney Live In L.A.
Congratulations to Simon Pickford, who is the lucky winner of the Paul McCartney Live in Los Angeles CD.
Many thanks to all who entered, and look out for more competitions soon!
COMPETITION WINNER / Manic Street Preachers box set
We are pleased to announce that DAN NEWTON has won the Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists Collector’s box set.
Many congratulations to Dan, who was randomly selected as the winner – we hope he enjoys this superb box. Thanks also to everyone who took part, and to Sony Music for supplying this now very rare set.
More competitions to be announced shortly, so keep in touch with SuperDeluxeEdition via facebook and twitter – don’t miss out!
FIRST PICTURES / T. Rex: The Slider Super Deluxe Edition Box Set
Limited to only 2000 units this Super Deluxe celebration of T. Rex‘s 1972 album The Slider is released today. A full review will follow but here we present some first pictures of this set.
- • UK Pre-order: The Slider 40th Anniversary Boxset
- • USA Pre-order: The Slider-40th Anniversary Box Set
- • CANADA Pre-order: Slider-40th Anniversary Box Set
- • GERMAN Pre-order: The Slider 40th Anniversary Box Set
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Out This Week 26 Nov 2012
T. Rex / The Slider 40th Anniversary box set
Massive box full of vinyl, CDs, a DVD and a mass of memorabilia. More here.
Rage Against The Machine XX / Deluxe Box Set
The acclaimed debut gets the deluxe treatment in this generous deluxe box. More here.
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra / The Jazz Age
Bryan Ferry doesn’t appear to play anything on this record, but his ‘jazz orchestra’ do! These are instrumental 1920s jazz interpretations of some of the Roxy Music frontman’s best songs. More here.
The House Of Love Debut album 3CD Deluxe Edition
A massive celebration of a classic album – Singles, B-sides and previously unreleased mixes and demos are included across three CDs. More here.
Elvis Costello / In Motion Pictures
Compilation of Declan McManus’s songs used in, or written for movies. More here.
Trendy Christmas compilation with new recordings from Paul McCartney, Rufus Wainwright, The Shins and Calexico.
UK Pre-order: Christmas Rules
St Etienne / Casino Classics
Limited Edition four-disc update of the 1996 remix compilation. More here.
St Etienne / Casino Classics box set
An update of the 1996 remix compilation, this four-disc limited edition version of Casino Classics (out 26 November) gathers together as many of St Etienne‘s favourite mixes that will fit onto four CD’s – from Foxbase Alpha right up until London Conversations. This set is packaged in a DVD sized hardback book. As a bonus this four-disc set also gives you access to download a further 10 mixes! A cut down two-disc ‘deluxe’ version is also available.
- UK Pre-order: Casino Classics 4-disc box (best price)
- USA Pre-order: Casino Classics 4-disc box
- CANADA Pre-order: Casino Classics 4-disc box
- GERMANY Pre-order: Casino Classics 4-disc box
Track listing (four disc box set):
A New England: The Very Best Of Kirsty MacColl
Having reissued most of her back catalogue last month, Salvo Music will release a Kirsty MacColl greatest hits compilation on 18 February 2013.
Here we bring you an exclusive look at the cover art, and can confirm that A New England: The Very Best Of Kirsty MacColl will be a high profile TV-advertised 21-track collection, that features music from her entire career, including songs from her final album Tropical Brainstorm.
The track listing is still being finalised, and we will bring you all the details when we have them.
Jethro Tull / Thick As A Brick 5.1 glitches: replacement DVDs offered
EMI, Ian Anderson, and Steve Wilson have acknowledged that there are three glitches on the 5.1 surround sound DVD that comes as part of the Jethro Tull’s Thick As A Brick 40th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue. This message was recently left on the Jethro Tull Facebook page:
STOP PRESS: AUDIO GLITICHES ON TAAB 40th Special Edition DVD
We have been alerted to the fact that there are three small audio glitches on the 5.1 streams on the DVD part of the Thick As A Brick Special Edition CD/DVD set. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. Any new stock going into stores will be amended & for fans who’ve already purchased the set we will be making available a replacement DVD disc for you. More information to follow shortly. This occurred in the very final stage of mastering prior to manufacture of the commercial run of product and was not noticed until attentive early purchasers spotted the digital errors. With our apologies.
EMI Music, Ian Anderson and Steven Wilson.
More on this when we have it.
Sex Mix Fix: Frankie replacement CD
ZTT Records yesterday posted a message on their Facebook page, on behalf of Salvo Music, informing purchasers of Frankie Goes To Hollywood‘s Sex Mix compilation, how they can go about getting a replacement ‘disc one’ of this set, that corrects the error with the the first five tracks.
As regular readers will be aware, incorrect masters were used for the tracks relating to the original Welcome To The Pleasuredome cassette single (disc one, tracks 1-5) – the audio used had the left-hand channel mirrored on both right and left sides. Not exactly ‘mono’ but not stereo either. Only tracks 1-5 were affected.
Thankfully, the correct masters have now been found and Salvo are offering purchasers of Sex Mix a replacement disc one. Here are the options to get a replacement physical disc:
- • SEND your current disc one (no packaging or disc two) to Salvo, Union Square Music Ltd, Unit 1.1, Shepherds Studios, Rockley Road, London W14 0DA, United Kingdom. Provide a return address and they will send you a replacement disc by first class post.
- • SEND a scanned copy of your receipt (or other proof of purchase) to the address above, and provide a return address and they will send you a replacement disc by first class post.
- • EMAIL a scanned copy of your receipt (or other proof of purchase) to [email protected]. Obviously, provide a return address and they will send you a replacement disc by first class post.
Initially, it looked like you had to send the disc back, but Salvo have relented on that requirement and said it isn’t necessary. The last option (email) is clearly the easiest method, particularly if you are not based in the UK.
It is likely that stores will continue to stock the ‘wrong’ version of Sex Mix for the near future, until stocks get depleted. For your reference, there will be one or other of two codes on the discs featuring the tracks with one channel repeated on both sides, and they are: *053731 and *055114. The code on the new discs is: *056837. These codes can be found on the underside of the disc in the ring around the centre.
In addition, those who bought digital downloads of the album can now download an updated version at the store from which it was originally purchased.
Liza Minnelli / Results 2xLP Deluxe
Liza Minnelli‘s classic Results album from 1989 – co-produced (and largely written) by the Pet Shop Boys – is to be reissued as a heavyweight deluxe vinyl edition, with a bonus disc of remixes on 3 December 2012.
The album has been remastered and comes packaged as a hard back book gatefold vinyl with 16-page booklet.
Track listing:
Disc: 1
- 1. I Want You Now
- 2. Losing My Mind
- 3. If There Was Love
- 4. So Sorry I Said
- 5. Don’t Drop Bombs
Disc: 2
- 1. Twist In My Sobriety
- 2. Rent
- 3. Love Pains
- 4. Tonight Is Forever
- 5. I Can’t Say Goodnight
Disc: 3
- 1. Don’t Drop Bombs (ext Mix)
- 2. Losing My Mind (ultimix)
Disc: 4
- 1. Losing My Mind (Ultimix Dub)
- 2. Love Pains (Steve Hurley Deep House Pains)
Elvis / Prince From Another Planet
Why can’t all music releases be this good? Sony/RCA/Legacy have come up trumps with Prince From Another Planet – an Elvis release which celebrates The King‘s only New York concerts, in Madison Square Garden in the summer of 1972.
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WIN a Vinyl Box set by The Beat
We have a copy of a Vinyl Box Set by The Beat to give away. This superb box contains all three albums, faithfully recreated to match the original vinyl release, plus a special bonus LP of dub mixes. Head on over to our facebook page to enter.
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